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The Family Thermolithobacteriaceae

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Thermolithobacteraceae is a family within an order Thermolithobacterales. It is a monogeneric family and contains two species Thermolithobacter ferrireducens and T. carboxydivorans. Both species are strict anaerobes and extreme thermophiles isolated from terrestrial hot springs. Thermolithobacter species are very close phylogenetically to each other possessing 16S rRNA genes with 99 % of similarity. T. ferrireducens and T. carboxydivorans cells are short rods 1.8–2.0 by 0.5 μm. They are extreme thermophiles and neutrophiles. Both species can grow chemolithoautotrophically. While T. ferrireducens grows at the expense of H2 oxidation with Fe(III) as e-acceptor, T. carboxydivorans grows on CO. The nearest phylogenetically neighboring family is Incertae Sedis XVI which consists of Carboxydocella species, also chemolithoautotrophic CO utilizers.

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This work was supported by Molecular Cell Biology Program Russian Academy of Sciences.

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  1. Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospect 60-letiya Oktyabrya 7/2, 117811, Moscow, Russia

    Tatyana Sokolova

  2. Department of Microbiology, The University of Georgia, 527 Biological Sciences Bldg, 1000 Cedar Street, Athens, GA, 30602, USA

    Juergen Wiegel

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  1. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Eugene Rosenberg

  2. Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Edward F. DeLong

  3. Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Edward F. DeLong

  4. Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

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  5. Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

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  6. Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Center for Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Sokolova, T., Wiegel, J. (2014). The Family Thermolithobacteriaceae . In: Rosenberg, E., DeLong, E.F., Lory, S., Stackebrandt, E., Thompson, F. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30120-9_220

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